Three Powers - by sister Hội Nghiêm - 2019.12.27

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(Bell rings)

(Bell rings)

(Bell rings)

(Bell rings)

Dear respected Thay

and the whole community

The sound is ok

It's a little bit loud

Today is the 27th of December

the year 2019

We are in the
Assembly of Stars Meditation Hall

at Lower Hamlet.
So welcome to Lower Hamlet

for the Mindfulness Day

I hope that everyone enjoyed

Christmas time together.

Are you happy with Christmas time

at Plum Village? Yes, thank you.

So, thank you for coming here

to celebrate Christmas time

together as a . . .with family

as a spiritual family

Christmas time is a time for

us to go home

to celebrate Christmas together

so in that spirit I would like

to share with you

about going home.

How we can go home

to take care of ourselves.

By breathing

we can go home to our body

and follow our breathing.

It's simple

to follow inbreath and outbreath.

And we calm
our inbreath and outbreath

and we can smile to
our inbreath and outbreath

And we feel very peaceful

when we enjoy our breathing.

And then we are aware
of our whole body

and relax our whole body

Calm our whole body

When we are aware of our whole body

we can feel the tension

in our body

and then we release the tension

We can pay attention in that area

And breathe with that area.

And slowly, slowly you can feel relaxed

And the Zen method

we can

be aware of our feelings.

So what feelings come up

in our mind

we can be aware of them

and smile to our feelings

and calm our feelings.

And also

the same with our mind.

So what comes up in our mind

present in our body.

We can be aware of our mind

and calm our mind down

and smile to our mind too.

And when we can do that

we feel at ease,

we feel peaceful.

We can manage ourselves,

we can master ourselves

and we can be free.

The fact that our body and
our mind relate to each other

what happens to our body,

it will happen to our mind

and also what happens to our mind

will stay in our body.

So take care of our body
in order that we can take care of our mind

And to take good care of our mind,

we can take
good care of our body,

and we feel at ease.

You feel solid,

you feel comfortable

to our body

to our feelings

and to our mind.

When we go somewhere

for a long journey,

and sometimes we are tired

because of the long journey.

And when we come home

come back home,
we feel at ease,

we feel relaxed,

and we don't want to go

anywhere else.

Lie down and relaxed,

feel warm and feel cozy.

And so we do the same

when we go back home to our body.

We also feel at ease,

comfortable,

relaxed,

peaceful and solid.

And we can be our home.

And then, when we can be our home

we can sustain our home to other people.

When people come to us

they also feel at ease.

They feel peaceful, they feel relaxed.

And they can take refuge in our self.

Because our home now is very relaxed.

Our heart is bigger.

And we can be the place

for other people to take refuge in.

And first of all, for our beloved one.

When your partner comes to you,

they feel at ease.

When your children come to you,

they feel joyful,

happy, peaceful.

And then we can sustain our home

to other people, for example,

to our friends,

to our colleagues,

to our workers,

to the people around us,

to our Sangha.

And then we can sustain our home

to all people; to all humankind.

And our home becomes bigger

and bigger and bigger and bigger.

It's never limited.

We have to feel this before we

celebrate the New Year.

In Vietnamese tradition we prepare

a lot for the New Year.

And Vietnamese New Year, we call it.

And we don't wait until the 1st of January

to welcome the New Year.

But we also call the last days

of the year is like New Year,

like the 26th new year

(Vietnamese)

26th new year, 27th new year

28th new year, 29th new year

30th new year until the first day

of the New Year.

So we celebrate the new year before.

We prepare a lot of things.

We clean up our house.

We plant a lot of flowers.

We prepare a lot of food.

We have the new press.

Many things

to welcome the New Year.

So I would like to invite you

to benefit the spirit

at the Vietnamese New Year.

We can go home

to clean up our home.

To prepare ourselves to

welcome the New Year.

To plant in our garden

many kinds of flowers.

And maybe in our home

there is some garbage

so we can throw it away.

In order that our home

can be spacious,

our home can be clean,

can be beautiful,

and can be breathable

for us to enjoy.

So I would like to invite you

to reflect on yourselves

to see what kind of garbage

that you want to throw away.

There is some furniture

some things that you store

for a long time

and it's accumulating a lot of dust.

And maybe we never touch it,

and we don't want to throw it away.

And it occupies our home, our room

and maybe for 10 years we don't touch it.

So now we have to be brave

to recycle them, to throw them away

for our house to be spacious.

So we do the same to see

what kind of mind we have

that prevents us to be happy,

that prevents us to be free.

And we take it, put it in a bag

and bring it to the recycle area.

So I,

and to

to throw the garbage

sometimes we need the courage

because we feel regret

that we don't want to throw them away

and sometimes we need the courage.

And courage is one of the three powers

that lead us to be happy,

that lead us to be peaceful.

And sometimes we call this power virtue.

This power is not the power of money

it's not the power of fame,

it's not power of wealth,

it's not power of position.

But it's a power to lead us to

happiness,

lead us to be,

peaceful.

So I would like to write on the board

the three powers.

So the first power is compassion.

And first of all, we have to have

self-compassion.

We have to love ourselves.

We have to accept ourselves.

We have the capacity to forgive ourselves.

Sometimes we make a mistake

and we feel regret and we suffer

because of the regret.

We don't have the capacity

to forgive ourselves, so that is why we

are not so free.

So we have to have the capacity

to forgive ourselves.

We can practice to begin anew.

We can do it in a different way.

I remember that the

first days when I came

to Plum Village to become a nun

I missed my family a lot

and I also cried a lot.

Especially I missed my Mom

because I love her.

But also because I felt regret that in

the past I caused her a lot of suffering

so it is why I feel regret.

I was very stubborn;
I didn't listen to her,

and so it is why I feel regret.

But with the practice

I communicate with her

and try to forgive myself.

And I say to myself that I have to

live wholeheartedly in this environment.

So when I leave this place

I don't feel regret.

But when I left my home

to become a nun,

it was a good lesson for me

It was a big lesson for me

so wherever I am I live wholeheartedly

in order that in the future

I don't feel regret.

Sometimes we suffer because we feel regret

what we have done in the past

or what we didn't do in the past

that instead we have to do,

so we try to live wholeheartedly

in the present moment,

and we don't feel regret later on.

So we have the capacity to forgive ourself

and to free ourself.

And when we are free,

we have a lot of space and we can

bring joy and happiness to others.

Like when I am free

I can bring joy and happiness to my Mom.

And I stopped (inaudible) communication

with my Mom.

And I become happy.

So compassion first of all,

you have to compassion,

you have to be compassionate to yourself.

Forgive yourself,

and embrace yourself.

Sometimes we cannot accept ourselves.

We feel we are not good enough.

We are not beautiful enough.

And we become suffering.

We are very clumsy.

We have a lot of shortcomings.

So imagine that we have a child

who is not so beautiful,

who is also very clumsy.

She did a lot of mistakes,

and the people disparage her.

And she suffers a lot and she cries a lot.

So what should we do as her mother?

We should embrace her,

and telling her that "you are ok."

"You are beautiful already in my heart."

Right?

You don't want to yell at her anymore.

You don't want to blame her.

You don't want to punish her

because she suffers a lot already.

You don't want to make her more suffering.

So we do the same with ourselves.

We suffer a lot already.

We don't want to make ourselves suffer more.

And we are a mother of ourselves.

To embrace our body,

to embrace our feelings,

to embrace our mind.

As a mother, to embrace our child.

And we can say to ourself,

"You are ok."

You don't want to become another person.

You don't want to become another

and you don't want to become

another thing.

And the mother is mindfulness.

Mindfulness helps you to embrace yourself

and calm down your feelings.

Calm down your suffering

Calm down your mind,

until you feel release,

until you feel relaxed.

Then you have the capacity

to help other people to do the same.

The people that also
have a lot of suffering

and you can help them

to go back to themselves.

To accept themselves

and to water the
good seed inside of themselves.

Sometimes we both lose something

to make us suffer

and we become angry
with that person

and sometimes we
become hatred with that person.

And we cannot forgive her or forgive him.

And we cannot forgive him

because the wound is still here

in our body and in our mind.

And every time
we think of that person.

give you hurt.

You feel painful.

So that is why we have
to go back to our body

to take care of the wound.

By the breathing, relax our whole body,

release the wound.

And when you are healed

you have the capacity to forgive.

If not, there is no way to forgive.

Maybe the first time it's easy to forgive.

The second time it's easy.

But when the person makes the same mistake

and cause you suffering,

it's really, really difficult.

"Why do you keep repeating this thing

again and again and again?"

And so it is really difficult.

And when you see that it's
really difficult for you to forgive

so it means that the wound is still here.

But when the wound is healed,

you can forgive them easily.

And sometimes we don't need to say that

"I forgive her."

But forgiveness happens naturally,

because the wound is gone.

Sometimes they make a mistake

and you wait for them

to say sorry to you.

"Why did you make a mistake with me?"

"Why did you cause me this suffering?"

"But you don't want to say 'sorry" to me?"

And we only forgive her or him

when they say sorry to us.

But they didn't.

Why do we have to wait

until they say
sorry to us to free ourself.

We have to free ourself first

not wait until

they say sorry to you.

Because maybe it's too late

maybe they never say sorry to you.

So please don't become the victim.

We can overcome the suffering.

And when we change, the people will change.

But sometimes because of our habit energy

we want that person to say sorry to us

and they never did it

and we suffer forever.

So if we are wise, if we are smart

So please . . .

liberate ourselves as soon as possible.

Don't wait for other people to change

for us to be happy,

for us to be free.

So it is a way we love ourself.

It is a way to take care of ourself.

And by this way we can transform

our wounds, our suffering,

our obsession into joy and happiness.

There is some (inaudible)
that makes us to

obsess.

And we don't want to think of it

because every time we think of it

we suffer a lot.

And we don't want to touch it.

And when the times come

you feel suffering.

For example, if we
have the wound happen

during the Christmas time

We feel very scared

when the Christmas time comes. Right?

Because we think of our obsession.

We think about the haunting memory.

And sometimes we run away

from that time.

We don't want to free to ourself.

If we have the wound happen

in the Christmas time we feel
very scared when Christmas comes.

If we have the wound

in the new year we feel afraid

and scared when the new year comes

and we want to run away.

But by the way to come back to ourself

and heal the wound

we can transform the obsession.

We can transform the haunting memory.

And it becomes the big lessons for us.

We can do better, we can behave better

in order that we don't create

the same mistake again in the future.

So, whatever happened

if we are mindful,

if we are aware of it,

it becomes a big lessons for us.

And we can do better.

And by that way

we have the capacity

to begin anew,

and also we have . . .
we offer other people opportunity

to practice beginning anew.

And we look at
other people with the new eyes

We don't judge them,

we don't prejudice with them,

because they're already changed.

And we always look at her past,

we overlook his past.

And sometimes she wants to change.

She wants to change
but we always look at her past

so she doesn't want to continue

to practice begin anew.

So we understand ourself
and we can understand

other people.

So it is the first power
that you need to nourish yourself.

And when the people come to you

they feel embraced by us.

They feel that they receive
the forgiveness from us,

and they feel peaceful.

They can do beginning anew.

They can be the start of a new person.

And the second power is:

Clever.

Sometimes we call wisdom

or insight.

Sometimes we are caught.

We are caught in something
that we cannot overcome.

But if we look deeply

into the situation

we can find the way out.

And clever here is not

the knowledge that you can

find in the book

or you can find in the DVD.

You can't find in my talk.

But this "clever" it comes from yourself.

It comes from inside of yourself

by your practice

in the daily life.

And all the lessons we learn (are)

the same.

You don't see (them) in the book.

You cannot learn compassion

when you open
the book and you read it, no.

But by the way
we contact with the people,

by the way we
transform our suffering,

so we have the compassion.

We cannot learn the patience

in the book.

Or ways to deal with
the situation during the day

in your relationships

then you learn the patience.

So it is the same with clever,

with insight, we never learn

in the book.

So it is not the knowledge

that you accumulate
while you (are) reading books

or you watch a DVD.

You go to the YouTube and search

for what you need.

But it's not the insight.

But the insight
comes from your experience.

And it also comes from your peaceful mind.

When you go home to your body,

calm down

your feeling,

calm down your emotion,

calm down your mind,

so you can see things clearly.

So it is the insight.

And insight comes up quickly.

It's like the thunder.

It comes up naturally,

quickly.

So sometimes we have
the problem and we don't know how

to solve the problem.

Try not to think

but just go back to yourself.

Let your mind become peaceful,

and when you are peaceful enough

the solution comes up.

Of course we need the knowledge

because if we don't have the knowledge

maybe we don't kn.ow
how to nourish it

We don't know how
to nourish the insight.

For example, if we don't know

how to breathe maybe we
don't breathe properly.

We if don't know how to

calm down our feeling and our mind

maybe we don't know how to do it

correctly.

So we have to
learn how to do it.

And then we know how to do it
we have to put it into practice.

We have to apply it.

And then we have the insight.

And sometimes we call it understanding.

And if there is .no understanding
there is no love

We cannot love other people

if we don't understand them.

We may think that we love them

but in fact we cause
them a lot of suffering.

As the parents

we see our children as our

treasured property.

We do everything for them.

Buy the new thing for them
buy the new beautiful clothes for them,

raise them up.

Help them to go to the university,

to have the good job,

to buy the car for them. And

you think that you

have done everything for your children.

But in fact, you don't
understand them.

You don't know what they want.

You don't know their

aspirations.

And you may never have a chance

to listen to them.

So you may come back

to have a good communication

with them to understand

your children.

And when you understand your children

you can bring them
a lot of joy and happiness.

So that is the insight,
that is the understanding.

And you see that your children

are your continuation.

You take good care of your children

is to take good care of your continuation.

Then your children can
bring you to the future.

So it is the insight

And we have many kinds of insight.

Impermanent insight.

Non-self insight.

Interbeing insight.

So we have to learn about

impermanence.
We learn about non-self,

we learn about interbeing,

we learn about love,

and we put them into practice
in order that we have the

insight.

And the insight

can liberate us.

And the third power

is courage.

The courage

to cut through

afflictions.

Sometimes we call courage

sometimes we call
"cutting through the afflictions"

or sometimes
we call "letting go."

We have the courage to let go

of our ideas.

Sometimes the idea makes us suffer.

We think that we are right

and the people
other people are wrong.

So it is why
we are with each other

we bring disharmony

in our family.

I remember that when I was young

sometimes my parents
are with each other

and my Mom
thought that she's right

and my father thought that

he was right.

And both of them were right.

But I cannot ask the
other people's ideas,

other people's view.

So it is why they cause

each other suffering.

And they make
their children suffer.

So we have to be courageous

to let go of our ideas,

even we think that we are right.

But if it doesn't bring harmony

in our family so we can

bring it home
oh sorry we can

let it go.

Because it doesn't
bring happ.iness to each other

So maybe we can contemplate

to see what we need to let go

what we need to cut through.

And the first thing
we need to cut through

is our craving.

So there are many kinds of craving.

We are craving for food, for example.

It can bring us a lot of suffering.

It is very tasty, very delicious,

but it's not good for our health.

So maybe we can let go.

We desire

to have a car,

a beautiful car.

And we do a lot of work,

we work hard to earn
money to buy a car.

But, in fact, that when we have the car

we are not so happy.

We accumulate more

tension . . .

stress.

And when we are
tense-ful and stressed

we make other people suffer also.

But we may not realize that.

And somethings
that we think that if we have them

we are happy,

but in fact that when
we have them, we are not happy.

So we have to look deeply to see

what kind of desire we have

that doesn't bring us happiness,

but we think that it
will bring us happiness.

And we have to be courageous to let

them . . . . go away.

We have to let go.

It is the same with the material things

and spiritual things also.

We have to let go.

So . . .

when we look deeply

into the things
and we can realize that

maybe the simple life is the best for us.

We don't need to have
much things to be happy.

We live simply,

where we have time for ourselves,

we have time for our beloved one.

Sometimes we feel tense.

We feel stressful

but we don't have time to relax.

We do thing after thing.

And we think that when we finish
these things we have opportunity to relax,

to rest.

But in fact when we finish
one thing we have another thing to do.

And we never had the chance

to relax and to rest.

And even when we go to the vacation,

we also do a lot of things,

arrange a lot of things,

for us to relax,
but in fact we accumulate more

tension . . . in our body and in our mind.

We want to have a big house

but in fact that when
we have a big house

we are not happy.

But if you have time

you have everything.

And people say time is gold,

but our teacher says that time is our life.

We have to enjoy our time

as we enjoy our life.

And the second thing that we

want to cut through is

anger,

or hatred.

Anger is a big thing
that. we have to deal with

Because of anger we also
create a lot of suffering

for each other.

And when we are angry

we think that we are right

so it is why we're angry
with other people.

They did something wrong
they make us suffer.

Why they do like this?
Why they say like that?

and because of that we're angry with that.

But the same method to go back to our home

to our body and feel it.

To take care of our body and feelings.

We take good care of our anger.

We embrace our anger,

calm down our anger,

and to free ourself.

When I do sitting meditation

I scan my whole body.

Aware of my whole body

from my breathing,

to my face,

my shoulders,

my arms,

my back, my legs,

my fingers,

my toes,

my intestines,

my liver, my heart.

So I scan my whole body.

And then I scan all

members

in the community.

In my sangha,

to see if I'm angry with anyone.

And then I scan all the people

with other hamlets with other sanghas.

With my family to see if I'm angry,

if I'm angry with anyone.

And the moment that I feel
I'm not angry with anyone I feel so happy.

I feel so free.

So just the fact
that we are not angry with anyone,

we're already happy.

So you may

do the same

when you have free time.

To think of yourself,
think of other people

and see if you are angry with anyone.

And then the moment you feel
that you are not angry with anyone,

you free yourself.

You liberate yourself,

and you become happy,

like you are the
happiest person in the world.

And the same with the other mind.

If you have the jealousy,

and when you do
sitting meditation you also scan

everyone

in your family or in the community.

And that moment
you don't feel jealous with anyone,

you feel so happy.

And you can do like that
with any kind of mind

that bothers you, that makes you unhappy.

And then you sustain
the sitting meditation time,

all of the day.

Like when you do the work,

when you cook in the kitchen,

when you do washing,

when you take a walk.

So you sustain it

and you also feel happy,

and your happiness becomes huge.

And all day long you feel happy.

And if you can do for one day,

you can do for the second day,
the third day, the fourth day,

a month, a year

and maybe forever.

And you can master yourself.

So . . .

anger or hatred
is only ,one kind of mind

but with every kind of mind
you can do the same.

And the third is ignorance.

With the insight of wisdom

we have to look deeply into things.

We have to look deeply into the situation

to understand the situation better.

And when we understand

the situation

we can free ourselves.

We suffer because
we don't see things clearly.

We know nothing.

We're ignorant

about things,

about reality.

So we have to cut through ignorance.

We have to cut through ignorance

in order that we can free ourselves.

Sometimes we need friends to help us

because we don't see things clearly.

But we thought that we see things clearly.

It is very dangerous
s.ometimes we need help

We can ask our friend
who has experience in the practice

to show us the way, to help us.

In our community we say that

the individual insight

is not

as good as community insight.

So we need
the collective insight to help us.

So when we have the difficulty
please ask for help.

Because the (inaudible) is very dangerous.

We think that they are wrong,

and we are right.
It's very dangerous,

so please ask for help.

So we go back to ourself

go back to our home

to see what kind of garbage

that you want (to) throw them away

by this kind of method.

And what kind of flower you want to plant

in order that we can welcome the new year.

(Bell rings gently)

(Bell rings)

Sometimes we can

we can let go of the big thing

but we cannot let go of the small thing.

And we turn the small thing
into the big thing, the big deal.

I don't know if you read the magazines

New . . . .

New York Times

There is an article

with the title
"Is he ever going to put away that shirt?"

It's very interesting.

It is written by

Brenda Chadowitz.

She tells about the shirt

of her husband.

The shirt was left

on the . . .upstairs in the hallway

for many days

and he didn't take it away.

And when she saw the shirt

she felt very irritated.

She says that "Why, my husband

didn't clean up,

didn't take it away?"

And she wanted to clean up
she wanted to take it away.

And it only took a few steps

to take it, to put it in the cabinet.

But she didn't do it

because she didn't want
to become the person who

cleans up after him,

to pick up after him.

Because she has two children

to take care of

and she always

cleaned up things for her children.

Pick up after her children.

So, it is why she doesn't want

to pick up things after him.

But everyday

she became more and more irritated.

And she told her Mom

and her Mom said that
because her husband is the doctor

and he's busy so take it away.

But she doesn't want to

and she come to the therapy

(Laughs)

but it doesn't help.

She told her friend

it also doesn't help.

And she remembered the moment that

her husband

did a lot of things.

Clean up the house,

throw the garbage,

(inaudible).

And there were some very difficult moments.

Her husband

comfort her,

help her to go out of the fear

of the suffering,

of the worries.

But still

she still suffered because of that shirt.

And she paid attention
to that shirt to see if it's moved

(Laughs)
But it's difficult, huh?

Day by day,

for six minutes.

(Audience laughs)

And one day she saw it was gone.

And she asked her husband
"You took the shirt away?"

And her husband said that

"What . . . what kind of shirt?"

(Gentle laughter)

And he said
"That shirt on the upstairs?

And he said, "Yes"

I cleaned up this morning
I took them away.

And I also

took off the socks.

And she asked

"What kind of socks?"

(Laughter)

In fact the socks that she
wants to wear when she do exercise

She put the . . .

aside and she didn't use it and she

leave them there for many days.

Maybe many months.

But before that she so surprised why

her husband didn't pay attention

to the shirt.

And she feel that it
seemed that it like nothing

but it has become a big deal for her.

But when she realized that

I think she feel free.

She may laugh to herself.

It is very human, huh?

It's very mundane

but sometimes it's very . . .

I think that everyone,

sometimes we

share the same situation

with her.

Sometimes we can deal with the big thing

but with the small thing.
We cannot overcome it,

and it causes us a lot of suffering.

Why we have to worry until six months

to liberate ourselves?

Instead it can take

few seconds

to take it away

and we free ourselves of six months.

So maybe it is an invitation.

That I would like to invite you

to look deeply into yourself.

To see what bothers you, what ties you up

that allows you to be happy, to be free.

And we don't worry

until six months later to free ourselves.

We don't worry until

our husband took away
the shirt for us to be free.

We can do it
because it's very little thing.

Sometimes, there is something happen

that we don't like it.

Our mind attaches to that.

Our mind goes right to the object.

And it carries us away and
it prevent us to be happy.

So we have to go back to ourself

and concentrate on our breathing.

Concentrate on our mind,

in our body,

in order that we can stop thinking.

We can stop directing our mind
to the object that we don't like.

We cut off

the thing that prevents us to be happy.

Direct our mind back to our body.

And when we go back to our body,

we also see clearly

that we also have some mistakes.

In the . . .

Dhammapada Sutra
(Vietnamese words)

the Buddha also said that

Easy seeing . . . .
easy seeing are others faults.

Hard indeed to see one's own.

Like just one

we know others faults

but one's own faults, one hides.

As the crafty

gambler

conceals his gambling scars.

(Speaking vietnamese)

So easy to see the mistakes

of other people.

But for our own
it's really difficult to see it.

So during the daily life

if you only see the
mistakes of the other people.

So maybe our practice is strong,

you have to go back
to ourselves to see our mistakes.

And the more mistakes we see,

the better we are.

Because we see

ourselves clearly.

Not because the more we practice
the more mistakes we create

but the more practice, the more

clearly we see ourselves.

And when we see ourselves clearly

it's really easy for us to

forgive other people.

So mistakes are sometimes very precious.

If you don't do mistakes

maybe it's really difficult
for you to forgive other people.

But when you have the mistake

it's easy for you to forgive

other people.

So it is why the Buddha always

advises us to go back to ourselves

to see ourselves clearly.

And if we see ourselves clearly

we can help other people
to see themselves clearly too.

Outside it's very beautiful

Today we are lucky to have the sunshine

so maybe . . .

we stop here to enjoy the sunshine.

(Laughter).

But one more time, I would like
to invite you to go back home

the physical home,

home here and home

in your family.

To clean up

your home and to plant a flower

in your garden to
welcome the new year.

And . . .

of course we can plan.t
many kinds of flowers

And every kind of flower
they need different water,

different ingredients,

different manure.

So we can learn
in order that we can plant

good flowers.

So we can do the same

we can plant in the garden of our mind

many kinds of flowers.
Flowers of compassion,

of love, of forgiveness.

Of peace, joy, harmony, (unaudible)

and then we can plant a garden.

And sometimes our garden is not so

clean.
It's not so in order

because we don't
take good care of our garden.

And it becomes wiry.

And sometimes we
go back to our garden

and our garden becomes

very dirty.

And we become bored
when we see our garden.

And we worry

we don't know where we can start.

So if this is your situation,

to smile to your garden.

And we can be brave,

we can be courageous.
to take care of that

And we look around to see in the garden

if there are any trees still alive.

So we can start from that tree.

And we take good care
of that tree and we enjoy that tree.

And then from that tree

so we can sustain

to take care of
other places in the garden.

So it is the same with
the garden of our mind.

Sometimes we feel

unease with our mind.

But if we see that we
still have the compassion.

it's good already.

If it's still alive we go back
to take care of our compassion.

And make it bigger,
make it stronger.

We can love,
share our love to other people.

Feel compassionate to other people.

Feel compassionate
to other's suffering,

other people's suffering.

And then we sustain to

other trees, love, forgiveness

understanding actual, and we make our

garden become more beautiful.

Become bright.

So I wish you a safe trip home

to take good care of your garden.

To clean up your

home,

with joy and happiness

to celebrate a new year.

Wherever you are

and enjoy the happy new year.

Thank you so much for your listening.

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